Humanistic Self Assessment

Initially, I felt a struggle to answer this question “correctly”. I felt as though I would answer it the wrong way even though this was an irrational belief because there is no wrong answer. As I mentioned, in class I wrote friendly, creative, emotional, helpful, and nice. I believe these can all be put into a similar cluster. These are things that for the most part I think are positive aspects of myself and what I like to think are a part of being a humanistic type of person. As we discussed more I created a sixth word, which was survivor (just as Saba mentioned during our discussion). This sixth word was relieving for me because as hard as it is to say I have survived a lot of trauma in my own past. In the past I may have wanted to label
For me I believe that I have had a financial privilege because my family helped me financially during my undergraduate degree. They were the reason I was able to get my bachelors without working very much or taking loans out. This does not mean that I lived an extravagant life, but that I was able to make it through college living on a very strict budget. I like to look at it as my basic needs were being met. The privilege of health ties into this idea as well because I always have had health insurance incase I needed it. Although I do not readily go to the doctor only for extreme cases. It is nice to have it when you need it and I feel very fortunate that I can afford my own insurance now. Finally, the privilege of education also was something that I was fortune to have. My family was happy that I got my undergraduate degree, but at the same time they were not supportive of my graduate level degree. They wanted me to get working and help them out. So, I had to make a choice to take off a year and work to save money for graduate school and to help them. I also had to make the choice to work two jobs and go to school part time to survive. I had to learn how to use the privileges I already received to continue to make way for my own financial, health, and education goals to continue on the path that I wanted to